...love. "My father," he wrote in his Memoirs (85-86), "would not hear of this strange alliance. . . . After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate: I sighed as a lover: I obeyed as a son." Nevertheless he continued to watch over her progress as the wife of M. Necker, observing that "in every...

...foreigner. Destitute without his father's consent to the match, Gibbon gave up his love, later writing, "After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate: I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." 2 Gibbon's ventures in the direction of matrimony were ill-fated. In middle age he wooed Lady Elizabeth...

...(informelle) Verlobung. Die erste Schilderung dieser berühmten Episode: I saw and loved. [...] I endulged my dream of felicity; but, on my return to England,...soon discovered that my father would not hear of this stränge alliance, and that, without his consent, I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful...

...passion, and I might presume to hope that I had made some impression on a virtuous heart. At Crassy and Lausanne I indulged my dream of felicity ; but,...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; the remedies of absence and time were at length effectual, and my love subsided in friendship and...

...passion ; and I might presume to hope that I had made some impression on a virtuous heart. At Crassy and Lausanne I indulged my dream of felicity : but...myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle 1 yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time,...

...banns. Mr. Gibbon dispatches the rest of the business very quietly. ' On my return to England I found that my father would not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his support I was destitute and helpless. I sighed as a lover ; I obeyed as a son.' The reader will note...